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- U.S. citizens who immigrated from Venezuela between 16 and 30 years ago play dominos outside El Arepazo, a restaurant that is a hub of the largest Venezuelan community in the U.S., in Doral, Fla., Wednesday, April 2, 2025. Many of the friends, including Cesar Mena, at right, voted for President Donald Trump and continue to support him. "I have family and friends on TPS [Temporary Protected Status] and I feel bad for them. But it's a temporary situation, and you need to resolve the problem." (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
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Miami’s ‘Little Venezuela’ fears Trump's moves against migration
By GISELA SALOMON - Associated Press
Sun,04/06/25-11:50PM , 613 Reads
DORAL, Fla. (AP) — Wilmer Escaray left Venezuela in 2007 and enrolled at Miami Dade College, opening his first restaurant six years later.

Today he has a dozen businesses that hire Venezuelan migrants like he once was, workers who are now terrified by what could be the end of their legal shield from deportation.
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- Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks at U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak during a tour, Monday, March 17, 2025, in Kodiak, Alaska. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Homeland Security revokes temporary status for 532,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans
By GISELA SALOMON - Associated Press
Fri,03/21/25-6:45PM , 658 Reads
MIAMI (AP) — The Department of Homeland Security said Friday that it will revoke legal protections for hundreds of thousands of Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans, setting them up for potential deportation in about a month.
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- Several Immigrant families with their small children went to the house of an immigration advocate they’ve known for years in Miami. The start of Donald Trump's second term as president on Monday comes with a feeling that their time in the United States may end soon.
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Fearful immigrants ask Florida activist to sign guardianship papers for their children
By GISELA SALOMON - Associated Press
Fri,02/14/25-11:01PM , 403 Reads
HOMESTEAD, Fla. (AP) — The day before President Donald Trump’s inauguration, a dozen immigrant families came to Nora Sandigo's ranch to ask her to be a legal guardian of their children. Now they are insisting she come over to their homes to sign the necessary paperwork.
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- The Department of Homeland Security says more than 200,000 Salvadorans who have lived more than two decades in the United States can remain in the country another 18 months, marking one of the Biden administration’s final acts on immigration policy (AP video: Lekan Oyekanmi)
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Biden extends time in US for 800,000 Venezuelans, Salvadorans as Trump readies immigration crackdown
By GISELA SALOMON - Associated Press
Fri,01/10/25-9:04AM , 174 Reads
MIAMI (AP) — About 600,000 Venezuelans and more than 230,000 Salvadorans already living in the United States can legally remain another 18 months, the Department of Homeland Security said Friday, barely a week before President-elect Donald Trump takes office with promises of hardline immigration policies.
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